Two female undergraduate robbery suspects and their male partner in crime were battered and stripped nakked in Calabar on Friday afternoon for attempting to rob a Calabar-based businesswoman of N1. 5million Naira. See Photos Below...
Saturday, 7 December 2013
REVEALED: Male Birth Control Pill That Makes Sperm Ineffective On Its Way
Is this going to be safest?
A birth control pill for guys is getting closer to becoming a reality. Scientists are calling it a breakthrough.
They say that the technique works like a vasectomy, but without surgery. Instead, the technique stops sperm from leaving the body during sex.
Prior attempts at surgery-free male birth control either altered a man’s hormones or tried to make sperm ineffective.
Researchers say that this pill will reassure men concerned about their libido or virility.
The new technique has been shown to work in mice. The male mice tested were made 100% infertile temporarily, but the sperm retained in their body was undamaged and even later used to produce healthy baby mice.
A birth control pill for guys is getting closer to becoming a reality. Scientists are calling it a breakthrough.
They say that the technique works like a vasectomy, but without surgery. Instead, the technique stops sperm from leaving the body during sex.
Prior attempts at surgery-free male birth control either altered a man’s hormones or tried to make sperm ineffective.
Researchers say that this pill will reassure men concerned about their libido or virility.
The new technique has been shown to work in mice. The male mice tested were made 100% infertile temporarily, but the sperm retained in their body was undamaged and even later used to produce healthy baby mice.
Brazil 2014: FIFA World Cup Finals Draw
The 2014 FIFA World Cup draw took place in Brazil today and Nigeria will play against Argentina, Iran and Bosnia-something...lol. Nigeria's opening game will be against Iran and even though Bosnia looks like it will be an easy game for us, the country is ranked higher than Nigeria in the world. They are ranked 21st, while Nigeria is ranked 36th, but I'm sure we'll qualify alongside Messi's Argentina.
Checkout banned music by NBC
This censoring sef! According to Beatfm On-Air-Personality Gbemi Olateru-Olagbegi, NBC has banned several Nigerian and foreign songs/videos for either 'obscene lyrics or visuals'. See the rest of the banned songs after the cut...
Thursday, 5 December 2013
When heroes have gone from among us
As South Africa learns to live without Nelson Mandela, J BROOKS SPECTOR looks back on the life of an extraordinary man – and tries to make sense of a world without him.
WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d—and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring….
-- Walt Whitman (1865)
How to measure, to embrace, to understand the greatness in a man once he is gone is a challenge that confronts us in every age. In 1865, American poet Walt Whitman had been deeply moved by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on 15 April - just as the Northern victory in the American Civil War had been assured. Whitman had spent the war years as a nurse, coping with the near-Sisyphean task of aiding the tens of thousands of wounded soldiers who had streamed into the ad hoc hospitals using Washington DC’s government buildings.
In the first moments of mourning after Lincoln’s sudden death, Whitman had written of his heart-breaking loss in the poem, “O Captain, My Captain”. Then, weeks later, he wrote a more contemplative work, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” In speaking to an age more sentimental than our own more cynical time, Whitman drew upon the annual flowering of lilacs – the traditional flowers of mourning - to help his readers share the poet’s sense of Lincoln’s final sacrifice in the cause of freedom. Like Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln had been the central figure in the moral re-creation of a nation and a society – moving it upward on the ladder of human freedom and dignity.
But unlike Lincoln who was gone even before reaching sixty, Mandela was past seventy years of age when he had his chance for immortality. And unlike Lincoln, Mandela had the luxury to enter his own promised land, following those long years of isolation and imprisonment. He eventually became South Africa’s first democratically elected president and then, he could ease into his long, dignified retirement as an increasingly beloved, internationally respected, elder, world statesman. He was appreciated, even revered around the world as a living symbol of what could be achieved on behalf of the human spirit.
Finally, he metamorphosed into an almost-mute, unassailable symbol of his own considerable achievement. Mandela’s eventual good fortune stands in contrast to the lives of figures like Abraham Lincoln, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, or even Moses - all of whom had only been allowed to glimpse the possibilities of their respective promised lands from a scenic overlook, but never permitted to enter and savour their actual triumphs.
In the first moments after the announcement of Nelson Mandela’s passing, as that message reached around the globe, the outpouring from the powerful and the powerless, the mighty and the meek, became stunning in its intensity – like a river whose force had been pent up. The encomiums are too numerous to repeat here. Some of these words will have been the formulaic – foreign ministries all have prepared statements ready for just such occasions. But the words have come from everywhere and everybody else as well. And they will keep coming for months yet to come. There will be a stream of scholarships, roads, bridges, buildings and museums in his name still to come. But it will still be a long time before we have fully measured the gaping hole he has left behind – and it will come back again and again whenever we contemplate an issue and we think aloud - what would Mandela have said about this?
But those expressions of national and international grief that have come from everywhere in the wake of Nelson Mandela’s passing also allow the writer to think back to a half century ago, when another American president, John Kennedy also fell to an assassin’s bullet in 1963. Unlike Nelson Mandela, or even Lincoln, Kennedy was still in youthful middle age, only three years into his only presidential term.
With Kennedy’s death, as with Lincoln’s, Whitman’s words once again symbolised the cutting down of still another national leader. Any American who was beyond the cradle on that day can still recall exactly where they were, and what they were doing, when the news reached them John Kennedy was suddenly no longer their president.
This writer was in his high school algebra class, wrestling with the mystery of simultaneous equations, when there was an announcement over the intercom that the president had been shot in Dallas, Texas. Silence. Then a second announcement - the school buses would take all students home, now that the president was dead. What else could we do; where else should we be at this time of nation tragedy?
In the days that followed, people across the nation moved as if in a dreamscape. Some stayed glued to the images from their televisions and radio stations played sombre, wistful, soulful music, even on the pop stations. On the three national television networks there was but one program, and it ran from morning till night. The route of that fatal Dallas motorcade was repeated and explained, over and over again. And then it was Kennedy’s casket lying in state in the rotunda of the US Capitol building. There was the funeral procession with the rider-less horse, its rider’s boots symbolically inserted backwards in the stirrups; the burial at Arlington National Cemetery; and Kennedy’s three-year-old son’s poignant farewell salute.
All of this came unrelentingly via the television, day after day, as a nation was immersed in a numb, shared grief. And the astonishment and shock of a political assassination would be repeated again, and then yet again, after the deaths of the president’s brother, Senator Robert Kennedy, and then civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. within the next five years.
As the years have moved on, despite the stories that have come out about Kennedy’s personal frailties, the legend of that new Camelot on the Potomac that had ended before its time has only grown larger as the years pass. As with Abraham Lincoln, books and memorabilia on John Kennedy continue to pour forth to satisfy a deep thirst by an ever-eager public anxious to share, somehow, in the glories, legacies and legends of these heroes.
And now Nelson Mandela has joined this litany as the latest figure on a a roster that is part of humanity’s shared need for figures worthy of emulation and respect from our history. In years to come, beyond the flood of books, films, television series, and multi-media products that will pour forth, the tangible sites associated with Nelson Mandela – his homes, his offices, the courtrooms where he was tried, and the spot where he was arrested - will all become places of secular, civic veneration.
There will be many more songs and dramas added to a litany that already ranges from the songs Jacob Zuma led at the ANC’s National Conference to Jerry Dammers’ “Free Nelson Mandela”, Johnny Clegg’s “Asimbonanga” and Brenda Fassie’s “My Black President”, and on to that wonderfully evocative opera, “The Mandela Trilogy”. And these are just the beginning of a flood that is yet to fully break upon us.
And yet, there were also those years when Nelson Mandela’s name barely drew a ripple of recognition, at least publicly. Back in the 1950s and 60s, he was a man on the rise, a man to watch, regardless of whether one was black or white. His law practice attracted hundreds of clients who invested their hopes in his solving the personal tragedies apartheid inflicted on them, through his skills and persuasiveness. He was a genuine page-one, A-list personality whose face, words and deeds often filled the pages of publications like the popular “Drum” magazine. He was seen out and around with attractive women and he seemed clearly marked for some as-yet-undefined-but-great height.
His overwhelming political and intellectual presence – especially in the Treason Trial and then in the Rivonia Trial that followed a few years later - literally dominated the news, the conversations, the rumours and the hopes of many millions – and made international headlines as well. He was an avenging angel, the African Scarlet Pimpernel and the new Moses rolled into one.
And then came the dark. Sentenced to life imprisonment, isolated behind bars, his writings banned, his image scoured from public viewing, Nelson Mandela slowly faded from view and attention, save among close friends, relatives and former colleagues now scattered in exile - his very name taking on a wraithlike, half-remembered presence. By the time of the revolutionary events of the Soweto Uprising in 1976, the new heroes and must-reads of this new generation were the Black Consciousness hero-ideologues, South African, American and Caribbean writers, thinkers and ideologues like Bantu Stephen Biko, H Rap Brown, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Franz Fanon. In that new liberation canon, at least initially, there seemed little room for the presumed philosophical leftovers from an earlier
WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d—and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring….
-- Walt Whitman (1865)
How to measure, to embrace, to understand the greatness in a man once he is gone is a challenge that confronts us in every age. In 1865, American poet Walt Whitman had been deeply moved by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on 15 April - just as the Northern victory in the American Civil War had been assured. Whitman had spent the war years as a nurse, coping with the near-Sisyphean task of aiding the tens of thousands of wounded soldiers who had streamed into the ad hoc hospitals using Washington DC’s government buildings.
In the first moments of mourning after Lincoln’s sudden death, Whitman had written of his heart-breaking loss in the poem, “O Captain, My Captain”. Then, weeks later, he wrote a more contemplative work, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” In speaking to an age more sentimental than our own more cynical time, Whitman drew upon the annual flowering of lilacs – the traditional flowers of mourning - to help his readers share the poet’s sense of Lincoln’s final sacrifice in the cause of freedom. Like Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln had been the central figure in the moral re-creation of a nation and a society – moving it upward on the ladder of human freedom and dignity.
But unlike Lincoln who was gone even before reaching sixty, Mandela was past seventy years of age when he had his chance for immortality. And unlike Lincoln, Mandela had the luxury to enter his own promised land, following those long years of isolation and imprisonment. He eventually became South Africa’s first democratically elected president and then, he could ease into his long, dignified retirement as an increasingly beloved, internationally respected, elder, world statesman. He was appreciated, even revered around the world as a living symbol of what could be achieved on behalf of the human spirit.
Finally, he metamorphosed into an almost-mute, unassailable symbol of his own considerable achievement. Mandela’s eventual good fortune stands in contrast to the lives of figures like Abraham Lincoln, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, or even Moses - all of whom had only been allowed to glimpse the possibilities of their respective promised lands from a scenic overlook, but never permitted to enter and savour their actual triumphs.
In the first moments after the announcement of Nelson Mandela’s passing, as that message reached around the globe, the outpouring from the powerful and the powerless, the mighty and the meek, became stunning in its intensity – like a river whose force had been pent up. The encomiums are too numerous to repeat here. Some of these words will have been the formulaic – foreign ministries all have prepared statements ready for just such occasions. But the words have come from everywhere and everybody else as well. And they will keep coming for months yet to come. There will be a stream of scholarships, roads, bridges, buildings and museums in his name still to come. But it will still be a long time before we have fully measured the gaping hole he has left behind – and it will come back again and again whenever we contemplate an issue and we think aloud - what would Mandela have said about this?
But those expressions of national and international grief that have come from everywhere in the wake of Nelson Mandela’s passing also allow the writer to think back to a half century ago, when another American president, John Kennedy also fell to an assassin’s bullet in 1963. Unlike Nelson Mandela, or even Lincoln, Kennedy was still in youthful middle age, only three years into his only presidential term.
With Kennedy’s death, as with Lincoln’s, Whitman’s words once again symbolised the cutting down of still another national leader. Any American who was beyond the cradle on that day can still recall exactly where they were, and what they were doing, when the news reached them John Kennedy was suddenly no longer their president.
This writer was in his high school algebra class, wrestling with the mystery of simultaneous equations, when there was an announcement over the intercom that the president had been shot in Dallas, Texas. Silence. Then a second announcement - the school buses would take all students home, now that the president was dead. What else could we do; where else should we be at this time of nation tragedy?
In the days that followed, people across the nation moved as if in a dreamscape. Some stayed glued to the images from their televisions and radio stations played sombre, wistful, soulful music, even on the pop stations. On the three national television networks there was but one program, and it ran from morning till night. The route of that fatal Dallas motorcade was repeated and explained, over and over again. And then it was Kennedy’s casket lying in state in the rotunda of the US Capitol building. There was the funeral procession with the rider-less horse, its rider’s boots symbolically inserted backwards in the stirrups; the burial at Arlington National Cemetery; and Kennedy’s three-year-old son’s poignant farewell salute.
All of this came unrelentingly via the television, day after day, as a nation was immersed in a numb, shared grief. And the astonishment and shock of a political assassination would be repeated again, and then yet again, after the deaths of the president’s brother, Senator Robert Kennedy, and then civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. within the next five years.
As the years have moved on, despite the stories that have come out about Kennedy’s personal frailties, the legend of that new Camelot on the Potomac that had ended before its time has only grown larger as the years pass. As with Abraham Lincoln, books and memorabilia on John Kennedy continue to pour forth to satisfy a deep thirst by an ever-eager public anxious to share, somehow, in the glories, legacies and legends of these heroes.
And now Nelson Mandela has joined this litany as the latest figure on a a roster that is part of humanity’s shared need for figures worthy of emulation and respect from our history. In years to come, beyond the flood of books, films, television series, and multi-media products that will pour forth, the tangible sites associated with Nelson Mandela – his homes, his offices, the courtrooms where he was tried, and the spot where he was arrested - will all become places of secular, civic veneration.
There will be many more songs and dramas added to a litany that already ranges from the songs Jacob Zuma led at the ANC’s National Conference to Jerry Dammers’ “Free Nelson Mandela”, Johnny Clegg’s “Asimbonanga” and Brenda Fassie’s “My Black President”, and on to that wonderfully evocative opera, “The Mandela Trilogy”. And these are just the beginning of a flood that is yet to fully break upon us.
And yet, there were also those years when Nelson Mandela’s name barely drew a ripple of recognition, at least publicly. Back in the 1950s and 60s, he was a man on the rise, a man to watch, regardless of whether one was black or white. His law practice attracted hundreds of clients who invested their hopes in his solving the personal tragedies apartheid inflicted on them, through his skills and persuasiveness. He was a genuine page-one, A-list personality whose face, words and deeds often filled the pages of publications like the popular “Drum” magazine. He was seen out and around with attractive women and he seemed clearly marked for some as-yet-undefined-but-great height.
His overwhelming political and intellectual presence – especially in the Treason Trial and then in the Rivonia Trial that followed a few years later - literally dominated the news, the conversations, the rumours and the hopes of many millions – and made international headlines as well. He was an avenging angel, the African Scarlet Pimpernel and the new Moses rolled into one.
And then came the dark. Sentenced to life imprisonment, isolated behind bars, his writings banned, his image scoured from public viewing, Nelson Mandela slowly faded from view and attention, save among close friends, relatives and former colleagues now scattered in exile - his very name taking on a wraithlike, half-remembered presence. By the time of the revolutionary events of the Soweto Uprising in 1976, the new heroes and must-reads of this new generation were the Black Consciousness hero-ideologues, South African, American and Caribbean writers, thinkers and ideologues like Bantu Stephen Biko, H Rap Brown, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Franz Fanon. In that new liberation canon, at least initially, there seemed little room for the presumed philosophical leftovers from an earlier
Fresh Music-veedee:zuzu ft vee,dj Femmeddy
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Veedee co-produced Wizkid's halla @ ur boi and over the years has worked with a range of Nigerian artists, He is currently working on his haunted by music ep (Producers edition) and is set to release his first official single Zuzu ft. Vee (Africa's never ever seen rapper and lyricist) and City fm's finest Dj Femmeddy (Official Dj for the track) and being
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Veedee shows his skills as a producer and his ability to crop the best of the best into a song.
Download, listen and enjoy.
Veedee co-produced Wizkid's halla @ ur boi and over the years has worked with a range of Nigerian artists, He is currently working on his haunted by music ep (Producers edition) and is set to release his first official single Zuzu ft. Vee (Africa's never ever seen rapper and lyricist) and City fm's finest Dj Femmeddy (Official Dj for the track) and being
mixed and mastered by Allan B, I swear it is certified
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Veedee shows his skills as a producer and his ability to crop the best of the best into a song.
Download, listen and enjoy.
Rated18+...maheeda is back but this time its n*d*
Why did it take so long for you Maheeda? You are getting there, keep it up. See The latest photo the 'gospel' singer shared on her insagram page when you continue;
#BaddestGuyEverLiveth: Olamide bags 8 nominations for the “Headies”
Rapper, Olamide really is the “baddest guy ever liveth.”
The star has bagged a whopping 8 nominations for the Hip Hop World Awards aka “The Headies”
The star shared the news and this photo via Instagram and captioned it :
“Team YBNL tnx a lot !!! Please let’s keep it going .. Vote for my guy Baddo
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Solemnization -BELINDA WEDS SHAGGY
Please Join Us As Belinda Ikhanede Wed Badaiki Shaggy @ Mary The Queen Catholic Church 9:30AM on Saturday 7th Dec 2013,Reception follows Immediately @ Supereme Hotel Ekpoma.
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ASUU strike – It’s obvious Wike and Okupe don’t know what they’re doing says Kayode Komolafe
It is sad to imagine the thought-process that would lead any one in government to make the sort of statements coming out of Abuja on the ASUU strike in this day and age.
It was indeed a spectacle watching education minister, Mr. Nyesom Wike, on television last week as he issued an ultimatum to university teachers on strike to resume work today or lose their jobs. The combative tone of the Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, as he defends the national scandal is even more horrifying. These hawks in Abuja want to sack university teachers en masse and place advertisements to replace them just like that! To ensure a smooth operation of breaking the strike government is reportedly planning to draft police to the campuses. To imagine that this is the government’s strategy for resolving the crisis bedeviling education sector! And this is happening in 2013 Nigeria in which the President and Commander-in-Chief holds a Ph.D. from a Nigerian university.
Is the matter as simple as these combatants in power are putting it in a reckless display of arrogance of power? Wike and Okupe are, perhaps, not conscious of the fact that they are dealing with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the best organised and most disciplined union in the land and an exemplar of internal democracy. Those bent on humiliating ASUU should ask their predecessors in government who worked for military regimes for lessons of history on how not suppress ASUU’s agitation for a reform of the university system. ASUU has proved to be consistent and rational in its approach.
Nothing less, of course, should be expected from an organisation of intellectuals.
Meanwhile, we should be worried about the mindset of these presidential aides as we think seriously about the crisis of public education. This sort of official response to a crisis is a great disservice to policy and that is putting it mildly. Those appointed into public offices to serve the people have no moral basis to talk down on the same people in the manner these gentlemen are carrying on in Abuja.
It is sad to imagine the thought-process that would lead any one in government to make the sort of statements coming out of Abuja on the ASUU strike in this day and age. Is any one in Abuja bothered about the full implications of such a statement for the university system that is already in a poor condition? Here, we are talking of a system that is yet to recover from the debilitating effects of decades of continuous brain drains!
It was clear that the overwhelming majority of the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) were simply going to ignore Wike’s threat. Although the ultimatum was extended yesterday till next Monday, the minister’s demeanour on that unfortunate occasion should make any rational observer feel distressed about the future of the education sector. Doubtless, asking Wike to supervise the education ministry is a measure of how seriously President Goodluck Jonathan takes the sector. No nation that is serious about developing a knowledge economy will permit officials talking down on those responsible for the production of knowledge in the manner Wike spoke on that day. By the way, it is important to note that it has been alleged that this tough-talking minister was even absent during the hours when some of the crucial agreements were reached in the 13 –hour meeting the President had with ASUU.
In an egregious amplification of Wike’s threat, Okupe has described the strike as “an evil design”, “a subversion” and “ a calculated treacherous plot”. He has elected to reserve the roughest edges of his tongue for the university teachers especially their union leaders. When reminded that the government’s posture amounted to intimidation of ASUU, Okupe retorted: “who is the ASUU president that President Jonathan would intimidate?” And for effect, he was particularly harsh on the president of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Issa-Fagge. Okupe accused Issa-Fagge of disrespect to Jonathan by refusing to call off the strike after a long meeting with the President of the Federal Republic. Okupe spoke as if Jonathan did Issa-Fagge a favour by meeting with ASUU. In the view of Okupe, “no child watching the ASUU president would see him as a role model”.
Yet all Issa-Fagge has done is to lead a protest to draw attention to the decay in the university system caused by decades of official neglect and which no one has denied. It does not matter to Okupe that Issa-Fagge and many of his colleagues have their own children in the same universities paralysed by the strike unlike some government officials who can afford to pay for the education of their wards in foreign universities.
Furthermore, the medical doctor-turned propagandist has wondered: “what do they take the government to be?” and that “government cannot fold its hands” while ASUU continues with the strike. You wonder if those in power are super humans. Pray, are those in government more than fellow citizens who for now have the huge responsibility for governance? To justify the sack threat, Okupe borrows a most inappropriate historical parallel: President Ronald Reagan sacked air traffic controllers in the United States in 1981 at the expiration of an ultimatum. So, should the anti-labour stance of an extreme right-wing government in the US over 30 years ago be the model for Jonathan in resolving the crisis crippling the university system in the Nigeria of 2013? The passing reference he made to the tragic death of Professor Festus Iyayi is even more chilling to ponder.
The funeral activities to honour the memory of the patriot and former president of ASUU begin today, the day Wike’s ultimatum should have expired but for the extension. Iyayi was killed by the convoy of Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State while he was travelling to Kano to attend an ASUU meeting on the resolution of the five-month old strike. In response to this tragic coincidence, Okupe said that ASUU should not continue with the crisis “because somebody died” without even mentioning Iyayi’s name! Now, this is utterly insensitive. It cannot be a decent culture of conducting public affairs in the name of a President.
Ironically, the President himself has sounded more conciliatory in this matter than those who speak for him. Former Bayelsa Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseiga pleaded with the President in Yenagoa at the weekend to note the sensitivity of the deadline expiring today, which is also the beginning of the rights of passage for Iyayi. Although the President also unfortunately accused ASUU of
It was indeed a spectacle watching education minister, Mr. Nyesom Wike, on television last week as he issued an ultimatum to university teachers on strike to resume work today or lose their jobs. The combative tone of the Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, as he defends the national scandal is even more horrifying. These hawks in Abuja want to sack university teachers en masse and place advertisements to replace them just like that! To ensure a smooth operation of breaking the strike government is reportedly planning to draft police to the campuses. To imagine that this is the government’s strategy for resolving the crisis bedeviling education sector! And this is happening in 2013 Nigeria in which the President and Commander-in-Chief holds a Ph.D. from a Nigerian university.
Is the matter as simple as these combatants in power are putting it in a reckless display of arrogance of power? Wike and Okupe are, perhaps, not conscious of the fact that they are dealing with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the best organised and most disciplined union in the land and an exemplar of internal democracy. Those bent on humiliating ASUU should ask their predecessors in government who worked for military regimes for lessons of history on how not suppress ASUU’s agitation for a reform of the university system. ASUU has proved to be consistent and rational in its approach.
Nothing less, of course, should be expected from an organisation of intellectuals.
Meanwhile, we should be worried about the mindset of these presidential aides as we think seriously about the crisis of public education. This sort of official response to a crisis is a great disservice to policy and that is putting it mildly. Those appointed into public offices to serve the people have no moral basis to talk down on the same people in the manner these gentlemen are carrying on in Abuja.
It is sad to imagine the thought-process that would lead any one in government to make the sort of statements coming out of Abuja on the ASUU strike in this day and age. Is any one in Abuja bothered about the full implications of such a statement for the university system that is already in a poor condition? Here, we are talking of a system that is yet to recover from the debilitating effects of decades of continuous brain drains!
It was clear that the overwhelming majority of the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) were simply going to ignore Wike’s threat. Although the ultimatum was extended yesterday till next Monday, the minister’s demeanour on that unfortunate occasion should make any rational observer feel distressed about the future of the education sector. Doubtless, asking Wike to supervise the education ministry is a measure of how seriously President Goodluck Jonathan takes the sector. No nation that is serious about developing a knowledge economy will permit officials talking down on those responsible for the production of knowledge in the manner Wike spoke on that day. By the way, it is important to note that it has been alleged that this tough-talking minister was even absent during the hours when some of the crucial agreements were reached in the 13 –hour meeting the President had with ASUU.
In an egregious amplification of Wike’s threat, Okupe has described the strike as “an evil design”, “a subversion” and “ a calculated treacherous plot”. He has elected to reserve the roughest edges of his tongue for the university teachers especially their union leaders. When reminded that the government’s posture amounted to intimidation of ASUU, Okupe retorted: “who is the ASUU president that President Jonathan would intimidate?” And for effect, he was particularly harsh on the president of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Issa-Fagge. Okupe accused Issa-Fagge of disrespect to Jonathan by refusing to call off the strike after a long meeting with the President of the Federal Republic. Okupe spoke as if Jonathan did Issa-Fagge a favour by meeting with ASUU. In the view of Okupe, “no child watching the ASUU president would see him as a role model”.
Yet all Issa-Fagge has done is to lead a protest to draw attention to the decay in the university system caused by decades of official neglect and which no one has denied. It does not matter to Okupe that Issa-Fagge and many of his colleagues have their own children in the same universities paralysed by the strike unlike some government officials who can afford to pay for the education of their wards in foreign universities.
Furthermore, the medical doctor-turned propagandist has wondered: “what do they take the government to be?” and that “government cannot fold its hands” while ASUU continues with the strike. You wonder if those in power are super humans. Pray, are those in government more than fellow citizens who for now have the huge responsibility for governance? To justify the sack threat, Okupe borrows a most inappropriate historical parallel: President Ronald Reagan sacked air traffic controllers in the United States in 1981 at the expiration of an ultimatum. So, should the anti-labour stance of an extreme right-wing government in the US over 30 years ago be the model for Jonathan in resolving the crisis crippling the university system in the Nigeria of 2013? The passing reference he made to the tragic death of Professor Festus Iyayi is even more chilling to ponder.
The funeral activities to honour the memory of the patriot and former president of ASUU begin today, the day Wike’s ultimatum should have expired but for the extension. Iyayi was killed by the convoy of Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State while he was travelling to Kano to attend an ASUU meeting on the resolution of the five-month old strike. In response to this tragic coincidence, Okupe said that ASUU should not continue with the crisis “because somebody died” without even mentioning Iyayi’s name! Now, this is utterly insensitive. It cannot be a decent culture of conducting public affairs in the name of a President.
Ironically, the President himself has sounded more conciliatory in this matter than those who speak for him. Former Bayelsa Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseiga pleaded with the President in Yenagoa at the weekend to note the sensitivity of the deadline expiring today, which is also the beginning of the rights of passage for Iyayi. Although the President also unfortunately accused ASUU of
Housewife Slumps And Dies Of Exhaustion After Marathon SeX With Lover
A mother of three identified as Mrs Ijeoma Ifebunwa collapsed and died from exhaustion after marathon s*x rounds of s*x with lover on her matrimonial bed.
According to report, 30-year-old Mrs Ifebunwa invited her new boyfriend, Okechukwu Ani to her one-room apartment at Akubor Nnewichi, Nnewi, Anambra state to come spend the night with her.
It was gathered that the lover arrived the house by 9pm but left and returned by 11pm when the woman’s children had gone to bed.
The agreement was that that he would pay N1,500, being part- payment of the agreed sum of N2,000 for the romance, and pay the balance of N500.00 the following day.
After the marathon s*x which lasted which lasted till 4.30 a.m., the woman became exhausted with pains and started yelling for help and slumped in the process. Her screaming attracted her daughter Miss Oluebube, and the landlord of the house, who rushed to the room immediately and forced the door open.
The woman was found on the floor completely exhausted, while her lover, Okechukwu, attempted escaping through the window but he was caught by the landlord of the house who grabbed his legs and pulled him back to the room, and was thereafter handed over to the vigilante group of Abubor Nnewichi, who later handed him to the police.
Mrs Ifebunwa later regained consciousness when the police arrived at the scene. She informed them that her husband worked somewhere outside Abubor Nnewichi, afetr she which she collapsed again and gave up the ghost.
Speaking on the incident, the landlord, Mr Micheal Okeke, said that the deceased screaming woke him up from sleep, and that he had to break the door, and found the woman on the ground unclad with her lover in pains and groaning while lover boy held her.
According to report, 30-year-old Mrs Ifebunwa invited her new boyfriend, Okechukwu Ani to her one-room apartment at Akubor Nnewichi, Nnewi, Anambra state to come spend the night with her.
It was gathered that the lover arrived the house by 9pm but left and returned by 11pm when the woman’s children had gone to bed.
The agreement was that that he would pay N1,500, being part- payment of the agreed sum of N2,000 for the romance, and pay the balance of N500.00 the following day.
After the marathon s*x which lasted which lasted till 4.30 a.m., the woman became exhausted with pains and started yelling for help and slumped in the process. Her screaming attracted her daughter Miss Oluebube, and the landlord of the house, who rushed to the room immediately and forced the door open.
The woman was found on the floor completely exhausted, while her lover, Okechukwu, attempted escaping through the window but he was caught by the landlord of the house who grabbed his legs and pulled him back to the room, and was thereafter handed over to the vigilante group of Abubor Nnewichi, who later handed him to the police.
Mrs Ifebunwa later regained consciousness when the police arrived at the scene. She informed them that her husband worked somewhere outside Abubor Nnewichi, afetr she which she collapsed again and gave up the ghost.
Speaking on the incident, the landlord, Mr Micheal Okeke, said that the deceased screaming woke him up from sleep, and that he had to break the door, and found the woman on the ground unclad with her lover in pains and groaning while lover boy held her.
paul walker death-why he died
The L.A County Coroners Office have revealed how Paul walker died. They say he was mortally wounded in the crash on Saturday November 30th, but was still alive. According to the report, he was burned alive. And the only way they could positively identify him was through dental records. This is such a horrible way to die. It's also been revealed that his friend was driving 90mph in a 15mph zone
From TMZ
Paul did not die from the impact of the crash alone. He burned to death after the Porsche GT crashed into a tree and a pole and exploded into flames.
The man who was driving the Porsche GT, Roger Rodas, died from multiple traumatic injuries suffered upon impact. Burning was not listed as a factor in his death.
Sources in the coroner's office say both men were positively ID'd by using dental records.
See the first photos of Paul's longtime girlfriend since the accident.
This is the first time Paul's longtime girlfriend 23-year-old Jasmine Pilchard- Gosnell has been photographed since he died in a car accident. Paul and Jasmine began dating in 2006. She broke down as she arrived at his home in Santa Barbara
From TMZ
Paul did not die from the impact of the crash alone. He burned to death after the Porsche GT crashed into a tree and a pole and exploded into flames.
The man who was driving the Porsche GT, Roger Rodas, died from multiple traumatic injuries suffered upon impact. Burning was not listed as a factor in his death.
Sources in the coroner's office say both men were positively ID'd by using dental records.
See the first photos of Paul's longtime girlfriend since the accident.
This is the first time Paul's longtime girlfriend 23-year-old Jasmine Pilchard- Gosnell has been photographed since he died in a car accident. Paul and Jasmine began dating in 2006. She broke down as she arrived at his home in Santa Barbara
Too cute: Twin girls marry twin boys same day (wedding photos)
Twin brothers Chinonso Akinade Okueze and Chibuzor Adelakin Okueze from Asaba Delta State married twin sisters, Folawemi Taiwo Okuniyi and Febisola Kehinde Okuniyi from Ondo state on 30th Nov at Foursquare Gospel Church Omole, Ikeja. Their wedding reception held at 10 degrees Center Oregun. See more photos after the cut...
Must they do this?
Ghanaian singer, Sister Deborah
Lol. At first it was a lady who stepped out at a Nigerian party, then Toolz spotted one in Soweto, and Ghanaian singer, Sister Deborah stepped out almost nude at the Channel O awards, now it’s Tamar Braxton. She wore the outfit you will see below to the Soul Train Awards on Sunday. Indeed there's a new era of fashion.
Lol. At first it was a lady who stepped out at a Nigerian party, then Toolz spotted one in Soweto, and Ghanaian singer, Sister Deborah stepped out almost nude at the Channel O awards, now it’s Tamar Braxton. She wore the outfit you will see below to the Soul Train Awards on Sunday. Indeed there's a new era of fashion.
Monday, 2 December 2013
I'm a in gay relationship
UK's Olympic diver Tom Daley, today revealed that he is gay. In a youtube broadcast he made and posted this morning, the 19year old Olympic bronze medalist revealed that "he is currently dating a guy and he couldn't be happier".
"In spring this year my life changed massively when I met someone, and they make me feel so happy, so safe and everything just feels great. That someone is a guy."
Meanwhile Tom Daley beat David Beckham, and Prince Harry to be crowned the World's Sexiest Man by Attitude magazine, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual (LGBT) mag produced in the UK.
New music-dj xclusive ft olamide
DJ Xclusive puts talent on wax as he teams up with Yoruba rapper and current toast of the party Olamide, for his blazing new third official single titled Ibebe produced by fast-rising taste maker Pheelz. As expected, the combination of such massive talent results in certified chart topper, as Olamide continues his stunning run of form to effortlessly deliver yet another killer performance, backed by encouragement from DJ Xclusive. Ibebe showcases two of Nigerian music’s finest in their prime celebrating the irresistible physical qualities found in our beautiful women, and installs itself as another delightful treat for Nigerian music lovers, courtesy the combined ingenuity of DJ Xclusive and Olamide.
Guess who?
This handsome little boy looks so much like the man he turned out to be...who is he? No clues...just guess!
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Senate president begs asuu members to return to classrooms
Nigeria’s Senate President, David Mark, on Sunday pleaded with the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to return to work.
Mark made the plea while commissioning a lecture theatre donated to the School of Management Sciences at the Kano State Polytechnic by Senator Kabiru Gaya.
This is disclosed in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Senate President, Paul Mumeh, in Abuja.
Mark said calling off the strike would salvage the already battered education sector from further deteriorating.
He urged the Federal Government not to use the sledge hammer on ASUU on account of the lingering strike.
David Mark, Senate President: begs ASUU
David Mark, Senate President: begs ASUU
“We have reached a situation where hard line positions would worsen the situation. My plea to ASUU is to resume classes while negotiation continues. Senator Mark was surely making reference to the ultimatum given by education minister, Nyesom Wike that academic staff return to the classroom on or before 4 December or be sacked. ASUU on its part has scoffed at the ultimatum.
But as David Mark noted: “The strike has done enough damage to our universities. They have also made their points and I think we should reason together and end this matter once and for all.
“Nobody, including the university teachers can be said to be enjoying this crisis. It is a huge cost on government, parents, the management, staff and students themselves.
“ASUU over the years has enjoyed the sympathy of Nigerians. I am afraid, if they remain adamant on this, they would lose the sympathy and support of the people,” he said.
He reiterated the inevitability of quality and functional education for the survival of any nation, saying that everything needed to be done should not be compromised, to save the education sector.
He thanked the senator for the gesture and appealed to corporate organisations, individuals and groups to emulate the senator and join hands in developing the education sector.
The senate president also commissioned other projects, including solar power water bore holes donated to the Nigeria Army 3 Brigade Command, Bukavu Barracks, Kano State.
Other bore holes commissioned were donated to the Police Command, Bompai, Kano, Nigerian Prisons formation and Kano Golf Club.
Sen. Gaya said the projects were part of his commitment to give back to the society in positive ways and ultimately address the water supply deficiency faced by the people.
Mark made the plea while commissioning a lecture theatre donated to the School of Management Sciences at the Kano State Polytechnic by Senator Kabiru Gaya.
This is disclosed in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Senate President, Paul Mumeh, in Abuja.
Mark said calling off the strike would salvage the already battered education sector from further deteriorating.
He urged the Federal Government not to use the sledge hammer on ASUU on account of the lingering strike.
David Mark, Senate President: begs ASUU
David Mark, Senate President: begs ASUU
“We have reached a situation where hard line positions would worsen the situation. My plea to ASUU is to resume classes while negotiation continues. Senator Mark was surely making reference to the ultimatum given by education minister, Nyesom Wike that academic staff return to the classroom on or before 4 December or be sacked. ASUU on its part has scoffed at the ultimatum.
But as David Mark noted: “The strike has done enough damage to our universities. They have also made their points and I think we should reason together and end this matter once and for all.
“Nobody, including the university teachers can be said to be enjoying this crisis. It is a huge cost on government, parents, the management, staff and students themselves.
“ASUU over the years has enjoyed the sympathy of Nigerians. I am afraid, if they remain adamant on this, they would lose the sympathy and support of the people,” he said.
He reiterated the inevitability of quality and functional education for the survival of any nation, saying that everything needed to be done should not be compromised, to save the education sector.
He thanked the senator for the gesture and appealed to corporate organisations, individuals and groups to emulate the senator and join hands in developing the education sector.
The senate president also commissioned other projects, including solar power water bore holes donated to the Nigeria Army 3 Brigade Command, Bukavu Barracks, Kano State.
Other bore holes commissioned were donated to the Police Command, Bompai, Kano, Nigerian Prisons formation and Kano Golf Club.
Sen. Gaya said the projects were part of his commitment to give back to the society in positive ways and ultimately address the water supply deficiency faced by the people.
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